Live Office Hours: Swimmin' In It | 09|08|24

� Live Office Hours
➡️ Swimmin’ In It
�️ 9 Aug 2024

Coming to you live from the literal lake.

➡️➡️➡️ “For thousands of years, Manitoulin Island (“Mnidoo Minising” or “Odawa Minising”) has been the home of Anishinaabeg, the First or Original People.” From: Shelley Pearen’s “Four Voices”, which is available via the Anishinabe Spiritual Centre (anishinabespiritualcentre.ca). ⬅️⬅️⬅️

The one where I take a metaphor entirely too far. (What else is new? �)

✅ define “generalist” voice teacher (vs “specialist”)
✅ describe my experience as a “generalist” voice teacher in academia
✅ outline how an independent voice teacher can still be a “specialist”

Two questions to ask about your continuing education:
1️⃣ has the person who is delivering the information worked with the same singer population as I have?
2️⃣ does the person delivering the information recognize and express the difference between being a generalist and a specialist?

➡️ discussed how not recognizing the waters we’re swimmin in can impact teaching and perception of teaching

� articulated how much I wanted to get back in the
water �

#shoutouts to
� Liz Jackson Hearns (who I’ve learned so much from and with)
� Cate Frazier Neely (without whose work, my road would be so much less smooth)
� Lorna MacDonald (who knows she’s swimmin in a river and never ceases to try to support us ocean swimmers)
� Traci Davis (who is navigating that ocean with so much joy and determination to do right by the singers she works with)